Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-28
THE CRIMSON SCARF.


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OommAnder-in-C Chief.
" Nineteen"
And the man
y A little older"
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SAINT morning , SEM 'ie Wagons aoIos0
tne creek anu ioilo"ed Ihem Will =
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aheao Vi US was III VI .coei 6uerri,iaS,
put We saH no Signs vi tnein, suu loI
TWO months nao ho 'rouoie Whatever
WIN any zoe.
"After crossing the creek the wagons
took road which wound along the foot
OF a spur OF the Blue-Ridge noun
tains, which rose green, heavily wood
ed, and picturesque at our backs. We
passed several small clearIngs and
plantations, whose log houses were
hlled with hot-piooded ana hot.tem-
pered southern women, whose evident
desire to Hay as with their ilngernaiis
rather interiered with that sweet spirit
OF hospitality for which the South Is
famous. At a distance OF seven miles
l halted the detachment at cool but
sinister-looking place IN the read,
known to all the country round about
as the Gap.
'Tbe Gap was the entrace to apass
through one Of the outlying mountain
spurs. 1t was a deep hollow, heavily
wooded. The dense growth of tower
ing pines and hrs grew close to the
roadside. The woody spaces were so
filed with underground and blocked by
fallen trees that as you peered into the
dark recesses of the forest on either
side hostile army might have been
sheltered there without your being able
to perceive button. l remember the
looks Of the place because the first time
/ saw it it made me rather uneasy, and
the last time but one that l saw it L
came near staying there for good, as
did, in fact, some other poor fellows
who were not go fortunate.
"Well, after rest, We kept on, and
q few miles further we came on plan.
tation OF $50 acres, with large ana
notwithstanding residence near tho
roadside. The wagons had reached
there long before us. They were being
rapidly filled from row OF weii-stored
corncribs at the back OF the house.
had just gotten off my horse near the
door when two girls came towards me-
and If i were not telling TINS story, gen
tlemen, would honestly declare that
they were the two prettlest girls ever
saw in my life.
"Ihey were ootn tall ana slender
with graceful and womanly figures.
They were dressed in dark blue calico,
and had no artificial aids to their fresh
young beauty. Their faces were intel.
hgent and full of resolution, yet marked
by that shyness which belongs to girls
who are well born and bred IN com
parative seclusion. The elder Ellen
was dark-eyed and dark-halred. Addlt
was seventeen, two years younger thar
her sister, and q yellow-halred anc
blue-eyed blonde. The apparitlon they
presented astonished US. think al
the men took off their hats instinctively
know did. And as my hat was
real Mexican sombrero, and matched
the long Mexican spurs that jingled
on my heels, ] was rather fond o
keeping it on my head.
at was Ellen who spoke, the other
staying little behind. Sir, she said
in o troubled voice, you look like {
gentleman. One OF your men ha
taken cur guitar. 1t is all that We hav'
let. and il is O great consolation. Viii